Ensuring your school website meets OFSTED requirements is essential for compliance and transparency. Below is a simple 18 point checklist to follow covering all the key elements your school website must include in 2025.
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Contact details
Your school’s website must display:
- School name
- Postal address
- Telephone number
- Contact name for enquiries
- Name and contact details of your SEN co-ordinator (SENCO) unless you’re a special school
Ethos and values statement
Clearly outline your school’s mission, vision and core values in a statement. For example, this could reflect your commitment to student development, inclusivity and community engagement.
Uniform policy
Provide a detailed uniform policy for your school, including:
- Approved clothing items (and if they’re season specific)
- Where to purchase uniforms
- Expectations for appearance (e.g. hairstyles and jewellery)
- Consequences for non-compliance
School opening and closing times
List daily start and finish times for your school, including:
- School hours
- Break and lunchtimes
- Early closure or late opening procedures (if applicable)
Admissions arrangements
Detail your school’s admissions process, including:
- Application deadlines
- How applications are considered
- How parents can apply
- How many places are available per year group
- Process for delay or deferral of entry to reception & process for entry outside normal age group
- Oversubscription criteria
- In-year admissions process
Admissions appeals timetable
Include key dates for:
- Appeals submission deadlines
- Hearing dates
- Notification of outcomes
Curriculum
Provide a comprehensive breakdown of your curriculum, covering:
- KS1 phonics or reading scheme names
- KS4 course list, including GCSEs
- How parents and the public can find out more about the curriculum
- Alongside a music curriculum, you should publish a music development plan
- You must also set out how over time you will increase the extent to which disabled pupils participate in the school’s curriculum, as part of your school’s accessibility plan
Latest OFSTED Report
Publish, or provide a link, to the most recent OFSTED inspection report, ensuring it is easily accessible to parents.
Performance tables
Link to the GOV.uk school performance tables and your school page.
KS2 and KS4 Results
Display annual results for:
- Key Stage 2 (SATs) including percentage of pupils with expected standard or above in reading, writing and maths, average ‘scaled scores’ in reading and maths, and percentage of pupils with a higher standard in reading, writing and maths
- Key Stage 4 (GCSEs or equivalent) including Progress 8 and Attainment 8, percentage of pupils achieving a grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths combined, and the percentage of students who enter the EBacc or continue in education or move on to employment after KS4
KS5 information
For schools with sixth forms, provide performance measures as published by the Secretary of State, comprising their students’ headline:
- Progress (value added) measures
- Attainment measures
- Retention measures
- Destination measures
Careers programme information
You must publish your careers guidance information, including:
- Name and contact details of the school’s Careers Leader
- Summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may access information about the careers programme
- How the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils
- Date of the school’s next review of the information published
- Publish policy statement to comply with section 42B of the Education Act 1997 (provider access legislation)
School policies
Ensure all statutory policies are published, including:
- Behaviour policy
- Uniform policy
- Charging and remissions, including details of any activities that parents are charged for
- SEND information report
- Complaints procedure
- Access arrangements for providers of technical education and apprenticeships
Governor information
List details of your school’s governing body, including:
- Structure & remit including committees & names of chair
- For each governor who has served in the last 12 months: Full names, dates of appointment, term, appointee, date stepped down
- Relevant interests including business, financial, other governance roles & any relationships with school staff or close relatives
- Attendance over last academic year
Public sector equality duty
You must demonstrate your school’s compliance with the Equality Act 2010 by publishing:
- Details of how your school is complying with the public sector equality duty, updated annually
- Your school’s equality objectives, updated at least once every 4 years
SEN Information
Publish your SEN (Special Educational Needs) report, covering:
- Support arrangements for admission of disabled pupils
- Steps taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably
- Accessibility plans
Financial Information
For maintained schools, disclose:
- How many school employees (if any) have a gross annual salary of £100,000 or more in increments of £10,000
- A link to your school page on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website
Remote Education
Detail your provision for remote learning, including:
- Platforms used (e.g. Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams)
- Expectations for student engagement
- Support for disadvantaged pupils
By ensuring your school website includes these 18 elements, you’ll maintain compliance with current OFSTED requirements and provide transparency for parents, students and inspectors. Regularly review and update these sections to reflect any changes to regulations or your school’s policies.
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